[support] 403 Forbidden error when using multiple sites, one drupal

[Garrett Coakley]

On 14 Sep 2006, at 12:58, Jody Cleveland wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to setup my drupal installation to have multiple sites. So,
> in my sites directory, I copied the default directory as
> menashalibrary.org. I created a new database for that site, and  
> modified
> the settings.php file in the menashalibrary.org directory to point to
> the database. But, when I go to the url for the site:
> http://www.wals.lib.wi.us/drupal/sites/menashalibrary.org
> I get a 403 forbidden error.
>
> Looking at my server logs, I get this:
> [error] [client 172.30.2.145] Directory index forbidden by rule:
> /var/www/html/drupal/sites/menashalibrary.org/


Requesting http://www.wals.lib.wi.us/drupal/sites/menashalibrary.org  
is asking drupal to serve you the default file in the /drupal/sites/ 
menashalibrary.org directory on http://www.wals.lib.wi.us, not the  
site menashalibrary.org.

Apache is returning a forbidden error because the default index file  
is set in the .htaccess to be index.php but the only file in that  
directory is settings.php.

To have multiple sites working you need to set up the domain  
menashalibrary.org in Apache and set the DocumentRoot to your drupal  
install, in addition to setting up the database and settings.php.

Hope that makes sense *:)

G.


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